Relationship with neighbours has been previously cordial. We say hello, take in parcels including her nieces prom dress which the niece then came and picked up as neighbours were on holiday, we invited them to the evening do of our wedding (they didn't attend). We both have fairly large back gardens. Part of theirs has been a bit of a mess for a while but it hadn't bothered us. Over all the lock downs they have both worked from home and some months ago they began work on that bit of their garden whilst being at home. They told us they were going to replace the fences between our house and theirs. This was fine by us, they guaranteed that the work would be done in a day and it wouldn't affect us. However it took 3 days and we couldn't let the dogs out while this was going on. When they removed the old fences they left them in our garden for us to deal with.
My husband is awaiting medical treatment and has limited mobility because of this. We are both keyworkers and have worked full time over all lock downs. Due to my husbands medical problems I've had to do everything around the house and the garden has become a bit overgrown. We tried to arrange a gardener but this was difficult over lock down, he is now booked in for next week. We have also had a family of Jackdaws make a nest in our eaves and they have complained about the noise. (our houses are detached and we live in the country there's birds everywhere!) We approached the RSPB for advice and were told we couldn't do anything until they fledged.
On Sunday our dogs managed to find a gap in the new fence and escaped, this was witnessed by the neighbours. I was panicked and roaming around shouting for them, clearly distressed. My husband went to the car to drive to the nearby park to see if they had made their way there and whilst hobbling down the drive the neighbour came out and started shouting about the fact that the birds were still there and the garden was a mess.
I'm shocked that they chose this distressing moment to have a go. AIBU?